
A welcome from Dan Frings, with tips on how to make best use of the course.
This lesson outlines the course aims and objectives, and highlights some of the additional resources included in the course which you can access.
Understand the aims of the timeline technique, and the 'active ingredients' that make it effective.
In this lesson, we explore who the timeline technique will likely benefit, and who it may not.
The preparation phase helps build a strong foundation for the timeline session. This lecture provides practical guidance on ensuring both you and your client are well prepared.
In the implementation phase, you and the client complete the timeline. This lesson provides a structure to how to conduct the timeline session. There are also a selection of downloadable resources to help you manage sessions easily.
The reflection phase is where you and the client explore the timeline. This lesson includes guidance on what the aims of this phase are and prompts to help your clients deepen their insight. It also explores key issues to be aware of and how to handle them.
Revisiting the timeline helps clients see how their perceptions of events changes over the course of their counselling journey. This lesson explains how to guide clients through the process.
In the final lesson, we explore two variations of the the Timeline Technique, one with a meaning focus and a second exploring future orientations. As well as practical guidance and prompts, this video also explores who these variations will be the most use to.
A genuine CPD course which will add a effective new option to your therapy toolkit
The timeline technique offers a powerful way of helping clients generate a coherent sense of self, creates space for reflection on unhelpful self-narratives. By looking at life ‘in the whole’, generating connections between events and reflecting on what they mean, clients can deepen their self-insight, put difficult events into the past, and create opportunities for positive growth.
Drawing on concepts from narrative therapy, psychodynamic theory, and gestalt and person-centred approaches, this psychotherapy approach involves clients generating positive and negative memories of past events, and placing them in a timeline.
By the end of the course, you will be confident in using this powerful technique. This course gives a brief overview of the core theoretical approaches which inform the timeline technique, identify which clients may benefit from this approach and work through the four phases of the approach (preparation, implementation, reflection and revisiting). It also provides practical methods and details on working with specific client populations such as those with trauma and depression.
Alongside and in-depth exploration of traditional timeline, this course also introduces two new variations – one focused on changing meaning of events, and a second which extends the timeline from the past and present through to the future.
A series of easy to understand video lessons (including practical guidance, prompts and discussion of key issues) are supported by worksheets, note decks and an optional certification of your CPD time.
Written and delivered by Prof. Dan Frings, an expert on mental health and a therapist with his own successful private counselling and therapy practice, this course will empower you to successfully use the timeline technique to improve client outcomes.